Pokingly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Pokingly is an adverb meaning So as to poke out or protrude.
Meaning
So as to poke out or protrude.
More Meanings
- (dated) In a drudging, servile manner.
Example Sentences
We arose when the first streak of grey light appeared in the east, and, without stopping to prepare our breakfast, we resumed our toilsome march. The poor starved and thirsty mules plodded pokingly along, in rather a doleful plight.
GMW Wemyss, Markham Shaw Pyle, The Transatlantic Disputations: Essays and Meditations […] the 1975 InterCity poster consisting simply of a Page Three girl, wearing a shirt and a hat and nothing else, bra-less (and this is clamantly, pokingly evident) […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include juttingly, protrusively, probingly, needlingly, pryingly, exposingly.
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